People: People, May 27, 1946

Edouard Herriot, corresponding with the publishers of a book he is
working on, gave them a peek at a septuagenarian's psyche. "Now that I
have grown old," wrote France's 73-year-old ex-Premier, "I have the
feeling, when walking through a cemetery, that I am apartment-hunting."

Richard Wright, U.S. Negro writer (Native Son, Black Boy), arrived in
Paris as a cultural guest of the French Government, was greeted at the
station by functionaries and Gertrude Stein. Author Stein, no slouch as
an original herself, let go with a tribute: "He writes the most
interesting and original prose being written by an American...